i had no idea. of being refusing food for forty eight days.

i thank you for joining us today. they were fraught talks that went down to the. bailout deal with its creditors to avoid financial ruin there is a price to pay the people with more than one hundred thousand euros in the country . will see a chunk of that taken away and the bank will also be broken up. it's really been a last minute effort here trying to meet but monday twenty fifth of march deadline

. cutting up liquidity there will be a restructuring of the country's second largest bank your capital bank of cyprus lowkey know what's going to happen is going to be having to create the concept of the good bad bad bank so first of all those are the plans that so the one hundred thousand euros will be protected and a move to transfer to the bank of cyprus that is the largest lender of the country well. above one hundred thousand euros will be taking a last. holders a class. that was never after the sun some day but the essential bank imposed a limit blows that people can take from a.t.m.'s i was a one hundred you were a limit so we can see the cash flow ok the problem still is. the ground up people are still really really frustrated and really anxious of what's going to be

happening over the senior staff and family members of loci by the run that is now is effectively going to be closed they've already been protesting into the streets for. their jobs. are frustrated with the fact that many people here feel this kind of saving the banks is not actually sending the people of cyprus you know the president of the country this is a deal that would be pleasing to the people of cyprus but really be a reality of what we see on the ground lost most of us a lot of frustration and the fact the. present capital going for a movement of the assets on the access to the money so that we know that the people here are just rude about the fact that they don't have cash in hand it's very difficult to access whether their savings are still going to be substantial so we can expect the people here room last to be welcoming versus a river open arms. tesoro silly are right that now the cyprus rescue package approval has eased fears of a banking collapse there and perhaps raised hopes that attention can move towards

a some kind of recovery for the small island economy but let's see what repercussions the deal may have for the rest of europe i suppose in a worst case scenario here about of a nervous investors ultimately fearing a president could pull their money from banks in other countries as well also the issue savers could cause a run on the banks in cyprus feeling that their money at the end of the day is safe in their own hands already some talking about putting their money in a glass jar and then burying in the garden the concern is if they do try and pull the cash out that will hit the capital the banks need to hold and that could trigger another wide scale credit freeze as well will none of this helps the e.u.'s public reputation the moment we're now talking about mounting euro skepticism sixty seven percent of cypriots want to leave the block and a financial advisor warren pollicie told us earlier here on t. the hardships of the small cyprus economy part of the much bigger crisis. we're talking. one five million people but in reality this is

a problem which has not been addressed since two thousand and seven two thousand and eight and previous to that with the issuance of huge amounts of debt into the system and in the united states. the only recourse which exists is to tap the remaining collateral in the system which is the saving sooner or later if you keep on stealing savings you're going to have asked it something which is relevant in a country. people. say in france. they are not strong financially. i mean. countries being the test to see whether savings can be stolen.

it's. still. made his four chain after the breakup of the soviet union a hugely controversial character now we've heard in an interview that with a party given by mr brzezinski his latest friday the day before he died in a conversation with a journalist he talked of his longing to return home to russia and we've also heard from the russian president's press attash a he said that two months ago a the president received a letter from verizon scan we can take a listen now to what that said. some time ago maybe some two months

ago but it's a letter to putin himself saying that he admits that he made a lot of mistakes. to forgive him sleep mistakes and also asked putin for a transfer. did exist certainly the picture i think being built up of mr berg or ski in his final years quite aside quite a lonely picture he was a larger than life characters that seem somewhat reduced in recent years now he's had a number of high profile court cases here in the case the most recent of which is with fellow oligarch roman abramovich and people have described not just the psychological impact of losing that court case which prefer quite humiliation for mr birdsall ski but of also the financial impact is well as he said the picture coming out of him and he certainly had seem to express in his final days

a longing to return home and of course that hasn't happened and he is now the subject of the own going investigation here into his. now boris berezovsky was at the top of russia's political life back in the ninety's awash with money and power earlier i did discuss the tycoon's legacy with peter lavelle of course the host of r.t. is costa. here man who absolutely made a fortune as they say during the ninety's or total and time in russia you stole it let's be clear here is that all it he didn't make this the even a woman in a million people in a manipulator ok he used the system what was happening in russia the political system had collapsed the economy had collapsed belief in authority had collapsed and we think it was in collapse so he picked up pieces all the all over the place where he was he didn't generate wealth you store wealth let's be clear about what they can you can you talk about in the end because you know talking off air about

the the rule of seven of bankers that came out of this is where the term came in i think was better software that invented it essentially in one thousand nine hundred six a small number of people in the community enormous wealth but they wanted more and they said to yeltsin we'll get you reelected which have to give shares in state institutions better off lot of eccentric cetera and he did it he gave the economy away so he would over a very little had no power and because off he was at the top of the pool so this is how he generated his wealth ok he didn't earn it but now you talk about a wealthy man you met him and this yes. oh i'm arrogant he was full of themself ok but a lot of security around him enormous amount of security he was paranoid for good reason there were attempts on his life and he left because he was worried for his life ok he took his money with him or at least a good part of it it's all the self-imposed exile in london and it was a solicitor sleep it was an escape he left he was he would have been charged with

all kinds of criminal offenses all the resignation self-preservation not going to get out of and then revenge ok what about what about one of the you know one of the high profile cases was how do we mustn't let this. polonium poisoning worked for a bit as off screen to live an echo world of about. in what capacity to look for dirt to look for dirt on politicians out of college and yes of course that was his job are let's let's bring it up at his office he meeting at all which in court are we talking about billions you know massive massive legal deceit it was a really huge gamble on the part of betters often it was a gamble didn't have one shred of evidence that would one sheet of paper to prove his case were caught with no paperwork absolutely why gamble so he would say he knew i am just coming you know the end is coming he was running out of money you think he was running out of money is broke because a lot of people question how much he was really worth was he worth these three point one billion i doubt it ever you doubt it so do you think it was a call back also with up a mortgage or maybe others that basically by step by step broken down and he died

alone interesting alone no friends is his wife and had little respect he lost his money he'd lost the respect he wasn't able to come home because we had heard recently that he had been trying to come back to moscow even penning a letter illusional delusional you think he wanted to come back or not i think he wanted to come back and as forgiveness no it was never going to happen while as you heard just suddenly became a fierce critic of the kremlin since you moved to the u.k. a columnist married a jet ski from the independent newspaper believes that some foreign officials in britain could actually see this as a chance to try to help and improve the state of russia and u.k. relations. i don't think he particularly was a serious threat to the kremlin. i think that. fancied himself as a threat and maybe he wanted to be more of a threat than actually he was. but the position that he held through the second half of the ninety's in russia obviously made like you figure of that period the

figure of berezovsky his position when he died this weekend and the contrast between that and his position of power and influence in the late ninety's illustrates in some ways how russia has changed and how much russia has changed in those five ten years i think elsewhere behind the scenes in places like foreign office in the corridors of government they'll be you know i wouldn't say they'll be doing something as improper as sort of dancing in the aisles but it is obviously was a very awkward figure he was a big obstacle to diplomacy with russia and i think his death will be seen as i hope anyway as maybe removing an obstacle to better relations with russia so good to have you with us here on our to today we are following the ongoing hunger strike at the guantanamo bay prison later in the program here we're report on a protest that's now entering its forty eight day lawyers say over one hundred

inmates are refusing food risking their health and lives of that much as they said about it on america's main media the details are just ahead for you. old. technology innovation. developments around. the future.

he was. not to accept his resignation. of government forces using chemical weapons against them. who joins us here on the program we can

take this story just a bit further paula good to see you. such similar accusations have been thrown about. no it is not the first time the syrian opposition in the pot as saying today that al assad's forces fired what they are claiming are chemical weapons at will surrounding an army base in the town of address on the outskirts of the syrian capital of damascus now the latest report suggests that two rebel fighters have been killed and some twenty three people wounded it does follow last week in which we saw accusations from both sides accusing the others of using chemical weaponry when there was a mysterious explosion near the city of aleppo now you remember that in that explosion twenty six people were killed and dozens more wounded that explosion was quickly and swiftly they billed by western intelligence agencies as a chemical incident perpetrated by forces loyal to the syrian president bashar assad the syrian regime has since the united nations to launch an investigation and

the russian ministry has said that if there are reasons to believe that chemical weapons were used an international group comprising of permanent united nations security council members has to be sent to syria what we're hearing now the regarding that incident is information to the contrary in fact here in israel the leading daily newspaper ha'aretz has written that it was definitely not an incident that was carried out by a side we also saw in the last few days when the american president barack obama was here in the region he was quick to make last eight months towards assad and the use of chemical weapons. once we establish the facts i have made clear that the use of chemical weapons is a game changer i am deeply skeptical of any claim that in fact it was the opposition that used chemical weapons. this is not the first time that chemical weapons have been in the headline what we've heard from obama and the

washington administration in the process is that they would employ a red line when it came to the use of chemical weaponry there's almost always so much reaction from the waist when reports start filtering through particularly of a side potentially using chemical weapons but what is interesting to note is that when this information to the contrary as we're hearing now got in the incident last week and there are more and more independent journalists and witnesses showing that attacks with chemical weapons were actually perpetrated by rebel fighters and by its anonymous then nobody says anything then no knowledge gone south to start an investigation so the question being asked is what happens to all these truth seekers you know certainly paul a lot of the leaders of western powers are very quick very quick to come down hard on the assad regime that when the rebels are using making alleged use of chemical weapons well the international community goes suspiciously quiet well let's let's go to one of the possible surprise about of an attempted resignation of the syrian national coalition leaders resignation certainly looks to court to have called its

members and others by surprise. it's me has caught many by surprise but it really is just the tip of the iceberg what we're seeing more is that the syrian opposition is deeply divided as you say the leader of the opposition was hard to resignation comes just months after his election now his decision to leave is being seen as a blow to the diminishing moderate wing of the uprising against the syrian president bashar assad there have in the past been and then launching number of resignations within the coalition itself by top opposition figures is what we see more and more is that the rebels are able to organize themselves that i'm able to consolidate the military and political bodies and increasingly it's clear that these no direct link between the fighters on the ground in the coalition that is the involved of the war with the concern now is that more radical islamic groups might fill this void that is being lifted by the resignation of the leadership and at the same time it looks

increasingly like no one is particularly interested in sitting down and having dialogue with the syrian president bashar assad also the u.k. and france recently suggested that a weapons in bargo on syria has to be lifted to the rebels as we see now the initiative hasn't been given any kind of green light so growing concerns what is happening inside syria. the latest on syria indeed from a middle east correspondent paul us live thank you. for now here are two the hunger strike among prisoners at guantanamo bay now into day forty eight the plight is still struggling to dawn a wider attention lawyers say over one hundred inmates are refusing food and a concern about their deteriorating state of health prison officials continue to downplay the protests and the little coverage in the u.s. media zante is more important now investigates. as you should be

in the world of twenty four hour news no country knows the power of media better than the us hard to believe it's been ten years since the shock and awe campaign that launched the iraq war probably we could have removed saddam hussein in another way that would not have been so damaging to america i mean a man had to go ten years later the killing continues in iraq without also continuing without adding that mass hunger strike at the guantanamo bay detention center but that topic remains off the radar of mainstream news and hid it from the american public no i did not notice i had no idea no really according to the center for constitutional rights one hundred thirty kuantan no prisoners began a life threatening hunger strike nearly seven weeks ago to protest treatment and conditions at the island prison a prison america's president promised would be closed at the start of twenty ten do you think that that's a topic that should be reported by u.s. media yeah i think so. because they are being kept in prison by the u.s.

so it's only fair that they get their views expressed that's what the whole country's built on the freedom of information to do that i mean i just think it's the right thing to do time square is otherwise known as the mecca of media messages millions walk through here on a daily basis flooded with information through news tickers plasma screens and advertisements but as we've learned even the most important stories can be ignored that nobody else is talking about this subject if this were happening in russia if people had disappeared into a legal black hole in russia and were facing indefinite incarceration without trial without charge without. would never hear the end of it the western media would be full of it human rights watch on this day international they'd be screaming from the. ruth drops of westminster behind me but because this is an

american crime because it's an american crime they're allowed to get away with it because the people who control the so-called mainstream media are fully on side with the agenda of the obama administration top u.s. general down calling for hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade the u.s. detention facility when c.n.n. finally turned its focus to get the so-called worldwide leader in news ignored the hunger strike is there anything wrong with trying to improve it fix it spend a few hundred million dollars to get it ready for maybe a new generation of terrorists instead focusing on the money. to update the facility where one hundred sixty six detainees are still languishing you know that more than half of the. kuantan now have been cleared for release i use the area. you know i didn't i had no idea that. i did. as more than one

hundred prisoners reportedly continue their hunger strike the u.s. military continues to dispute the figures however when r.t. first broke the story on march twelfth u.s. officials were denying that a strike was even taking place as you recall they started off by saying no one's on a hunger strike just the five or six people who have been on a hunger strike for many years you know then that figure was revised up to fourteen and now we're seeing the figure steadily increasing but to nowhere near the the extent that the that the prison lawyers are talking about and i think you know hearing about how the lawyers are not being allowed to visit plus this big gulf between what the lawyers are saying and what the administration is saying is indicative of the administration still trying to clamp down on me and they don't want this story aired and i think that that means that there is a very big story going on but in the business of broadcast news u.s. networks have to prioritize which big stories deserve the most attention that's

right the canadians are using farming to combat smoking nancy grace first of all i want to express my condolences what happened to your necklace former president bill clinton gets his way actress ashley judd will never be a united states senator. of new york hollywood liberals are starting with frances the now demonstrators against same sex marriage bill had to be dispersed with tear gas and they attempted to break through court on to the seans elisei it's estimated that three hundred thousand people turned out against the bill which has already been approved by parliament support for same sex marriage is waning in france although most of the anger was at leaders for prioritising it over jobs and the economy. south africans from thirteen of its soldiers were killed and twenty seven injured. intense fighting with the rebels in the central african republic over the weekend. captured the capital bangui on sunday forcing the president to flee the

diamond rich country reports say south african troops are also being pulled from the region by the rebels actions have been condemned by the un secretary general. britain's prime minister has announced a massive immigration crackdown which could restrict welfare payments social housing and health care david cameron laid into what he called the something for nothing culture of those arriving in the u.k. was the number of people allowed in to be heavily reduced it's largely aimed at new e.u. member states like ball garia and romania which are about to join the agreement allowing free movement and work throughout the day. and to libya now about two hundred former rebel fighters have perceived the office of prime minister ali demanding his resignation claim the country's political isolation law forbids members of the former regime from political life was a diplomat during more market daffy's rule before the nation's eight month long

civil war in two thousand and eleven. are not just a couple of minutes here a lot see it's a look at the lives of migrants in russia and working towards a better future for their children back. to life from. wealthy british style sun. that's not on the.

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